Circa 1890  A new house was built at Pleasant Hill Plantation on the same site as the original house. It is believed John Hancock Robert Jr.'s daughter, Jennifer M. Jones, spearheading the construction of the house as she longed to come back "home" (2) (5).

Land

Under the ownership of Mrs. Morris, Tom Manley shares his observations from a visit in 1948, "To sum it up, 15,000 acres of all kinds of hunting. No phone or electricity. Occupied by black tenant farmers who lived for free and raised their crops with mules supplying the power."